Steven McCornack

Michigan State University

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“Have a relationship with a person that goes on for years, well that’s completely unpredictable. You’ve cut off all your ties to the land and you’re sailing into the unknown; into uncharted seas. People hold onto these images—father, mother, husband, wife—because they seem to provide some firm ground. But there’s no wife there. What does that mean, a wife? A husband? A son? A baby holds your hands, and then suddenly there’s this huge man lifting you off the ground, and then he’s gone. Where’s that son?”

—My Dinner with Andre (1981)